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<mods:title>Revision of Saalmulleria Mabille, 1891 (Lepidoptera, Metarbelidae) from Madagascar with the description of three new genera and fifteen new species</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Lehmann, Ingo</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="A14DF0C6-BEA4-5944-B007-9C5BA41801A5" authority="(Gruenberg, 1910)" authorityName="Lehmann & Dalsgaard" authorityYear="2023" baseAuthorityName="Gruenberg" baseAuthorityYear="1910" family="Metarbelidae" genus="Shimbania" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Shimbania wichgrafi" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" rank="species" species="wichgrafi" status="comb. nov.">
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Shimbania wichgrafi (
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, 1910)
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="0" pageNumber="133">comb. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. a. Shimbania wanjakinuthiaae sp. nov., holotype, male, Republic of South Africa, Province KwaZulu-Natal, ca. 5 km north of Hluhluwe, probably collected on Hluhluwe Farm; b. S. durbanica (Hampson, 1910), comb. nov., male, Republic of South Africa, Province KwaZulu-Natal, Durban; c. S. durbanica (Hampson, 1910), comb. nov., female, Republic of South Africa, Province KwaZulu-Natal, Durban; d. S. krooni sp. nov., holotype, male, Republic of South Africa, Province Eastern Cape, Port St. Johns; e. S. wichgrafi (Gruenberg, 1910), comb. nov., " Type ", male, Republic of South Africa, Province Gauteng, Pretoria or Johannesburg; f. S. nigeriaensis sp. nov., holotype, female, Nigeria, locality unknown, probably collected at the coast as " 1 m " on the label might represent the altitude." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/845633" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Figs 3e</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Wing venation: a. Shimbania kerstinhempae sp. nov., holotype, female; b. S. wichgrafi (Gruenberg, 1910), " Type ", male (all drawings by I. L.)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/845636" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">, 6b</figureCitation>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 7" captionStartId="F7" captionText="Figure 7. Female postabdominal structures and male genitalia in a not pressed condition: a. Eberhardfischeria husemanni sp. nov., paratype, female; b. Saalmulleria stumpffi (Saalmueller, 1884), " Type ", female; c. Shimbania kerstinhempae sp. nov., holotype, female; d. Morondavania mineti sp. nov., paratype, male, with aedeagus below; e. S. wichgrafi (Gruenberg, 1910), " Type ", male, with aedeagus below (all drawings by I. L.)." httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/845637" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">, 7e</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Lehmann & Dalsgaard" authorityYear="2023" family="Metarbelidae" genus="Hollandella" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Hollandella wichgrafi" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" rank="species" species="wichgrafi" status="comb. nov.">Hollandella wichgrafi</taxonomicName>
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, 1910: Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Heft III, 2. Mai 1910, 289-291: "Transvaal, Pretoria oder [or] Johannesburg, 1 ♂." Original combination.
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Lehmann & Dalsgaard" authorityYear="2023" family="Metarbelidae" genus="Lepidarbela" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lepidarbela wichgrafi" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" rank="species" species="wichgrafi" status="comb. nov.">Lepidarbela wichgrafi</taxonomicName>
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: von Dalla Torre & Strand, 1923, In: Strand, E. (Ed.) Lepidopterorum Catalogus, Vol. 4, Pars 28, 1. Mai 1923, page 6.
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Lehmann & Dalsgaard" authorityYear="2023" class="Insecta" family="Metarbelidae" genus="Lebedodes" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lebedodes wichgrafi" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wichgrafi" status="comb. nov.">Lebedodes wichgrafi</taxonomicName>
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:
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<bibRefCitation author="Gaede, M" journalOrPublisher="Plant Biosystems" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" refId="B23" refString="Gaede, M, 1929. 21. Family: Metarbelidae. In: Seitz A (Ed.) The Macrolepidoptera of the World. Volume 14: The African Bombyces and Sphinges, Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart, 501-513 [+ plate 78]." title="21. Family: Metarbelidae. In: Seitz A (Ed.) The Macrolepidoptera of the World. Volume 14: The African Bombyces and Sphinges, Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart, 501 - 513 [+ plate 78]." year="1929">Gaede 1929</bibRefCitation>
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, In: Seitz, A. (Ed.) The Macrolepidoptera of the World, Vol. 14, page 502 + plate 78.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Material examined.</paragraph>
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, male, [
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], [Province
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], "Pretoria oder [or] Johannesburg", no date, "
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S.G." [leg.] genitalia slide number 23/032009
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Re-description.</paragraph>
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: ventrally brownish-olive (without any chestnut colour), the rest is deep olive-buff, short scales with cream tips, glossy; eyes dark olive-brown without spots and surrounded by long hair-like scales of brownish-olive with a glint; a pair of rudimentary pits is present on lower fronto-clypeus, a pair of projections absent; pits behind labial palpi are narrow slits; antenna short, 0.37 length of forewing, bipectinate, branches long, 4.5
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width of shaft, not scaled, all branches are widely separated at base, 2.0
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width of branch; shaft covered with ivory-yellow scales dorsally; labial palpi long, slightly longer than half of eye-diameter, brownish-olive, at tip olive.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Thorax</emphasis>
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: Patagia deep olive-buff, forming a collar ring, scales with light grey tips; tegulae with long hair-like scales of dark chestnut with a light lilac glint. Metathorax with a crest of deep olive-buff scales mixed with scales of ivory-yellow and cream. Hind legs deep olive-buff with fine hair-like scales with light grey tips, on lower part of tarsus dark chestnut dorsally; with two pairs of tibial spurs of unequal width and length, upper pair broad,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">ca.</emphasis>
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1.3 mm and 1.0 mm long, lower pair narrow,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">ca.</emphasis>
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1.2 mm and 0.9 mm long. Forewing length 19.0 mm and wingspan is 42.5 mm. Forewing upperside largely light yellowish-olive on outer half of wing, mainly olive buff on inner half, with a light golden glint towards termen, costal margin distinctly coloured with light yellowish-olive and few dark olive striae; below first half of 1A+2A is a dark chestnut patch; forewing with very narrow and dark olive lines from costa to dorsum, radial veins distinctly marked with dark olive, CuA2 narrowly dark olive; above the end of CuA2 is a small patch of dark olive extending through the end of discal cell and towards costal margin; a dark olive
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-shaped subterminal patch, broadly oval, from R3 to near end of CuA1 and hence, with a short stalk; termen without lunules; cilia short, 1.0 mm, olive-buff with a glint. Underside of forewing is olive-buff with a golden glint. Hindwing upperside is pale olive-buff with a light golden glint; cilia as in forewing; underside as in forewing.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Abdomen</emphasis>
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: Pale olive-buff with hair-like scales of ivory-yellow and cream with a light golden glint; abdominal tuft with hair-like scales of olive-buff, short, 1/5 length of abdomen. Genitalia with very long and narrow uncus, 90% of length of whole gnathos, narrow graben-like surface ventrally is present as well as a thickening in front of the uncus tip ventrally. Gnathos has gnathos arms that are large, one arm 40% the size of valva; upper part of the gnathos arm is a long band that is as long as 40% of basal width of valva, the lower part of the gnathal arm does not touch the other arm, it is of broad triangular shape with a pronounced thorn-like structure at tip and one short thorn-like structure behind it at middle, the base of the lower gnathal arm is 70% of the basal width of valva; the gnathal arms are connected ventrally by a narrow sclerotized band that is as broad as 25% of the transtilla and is widely bifurcated at the middle. The Gnathos arms end above the dorsal edge of the transtilla. The valva is elongated, broadly rectangular with a dorsal edge of 1.3
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the length of uncus, ventral edge of valva not strongly bent inwards at half of ventral edge, with a tip that is broadly rectangular; sacculus not pronounced, narrow, weakly sclerotized, short, 30% of length of ventral edge of valva; juxta well developed, with two ear-shaped lobes and a short narrowly V-shaped emargination, tips of lobes rounded. Phallus large, as broad as 35% of basal width of valva and 20% longer than costal width of valva, bent upwards at tip distally, vesica without cornuti.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Shimbania wichgrafi</emphasis>
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is a small species if compared to species of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Shimbania</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">S. wichgrafi</emphasis>
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has a unique character combination, namely a long and narrow uncus with a thickening ventrally (in lateral view) and a broadly elongated rectangular valva with a broadly rectangular end. In contrast, the end of valva is broadly rounded in
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="S. durbanica" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="durbanica">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">S. durbanica</emphasis>
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. The latter species has valvae with a dorsal edge of 2.0
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the length of uncus, but in
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">S. wichgrafi</emphasis>
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it is only 1.3
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the length of uncus. Furthermore,
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="S. durbanica" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="durbanica">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">S. durbanica</emphasis>
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can be separated by its very broad tegumen, representing the broadest among all species of
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Shimbania</emphasis>
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presented herein (it is broader than the length of the upper band-like structure of the gnathos, viewed ventrally).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Distribution.</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Shimbania wichgrafi</emphasis>
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is only known from areas in or around Pretoria (altitude 1.226-1.526 m), or Johannesburg (altitude 1.418-1.719 m), located
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40 km south of Pretoria and
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">ca.</emphasis>
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540 km west from the coastline of the Indian Ocean. The habitats in both areas belong largely to the "Central Bushveld"
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<bibRefCitation author="Rutherford, MC" editor="Mucina, L" journalOrPublisher="Strelitzia" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" pagination="438 - 539" refId="B90" refString="Rutherford, MC, Mucina, L, Loetter, MC, Bredenkamp, GJ, Smit, JHL, Scott-Shaw, CR, Hoare, DB, Goodman, PS, Bezuidenhout, H, Scott, L, Ellis, F, Powrie, LW, Siebert, F, Mostert, TH, Henning, BJ, Venter, CA, Camp, KGT, Siebert, SJ, Matthews, WS, Burrows, JE, Dobson, L, van Rooyen, N, Schmidt, E, Winter, PJD, du Preez, PJ, Ward, RA, Williamson, S, Hurter, PJH, 2006. Savanna Biome. In: Mucina, L, Rutherford, MC, Eds., The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Pretoria. Strelitzia 19: 438 - 539" title="Savanna Biome." volume="19" volumeTitle="The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Pretoria." year="2006">Rutherford et al. (2006)</bibRefCitation>
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(Savanna Biome) and "Mesic Highveld Grassland"
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">sensu</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitation author="Mucina, L" editor="Mucina, L" journalOrPublisher="South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Pretoria. Strelitzia 19" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" pagination="348 - 436" refId="B78" refString="Mucina, L, Hoare, DB, Loetter, MC, du Preez, PJ, Rutherford, MC, Scott-Shaw, CR, Bredenkamp, GJ, Powrie, LW, Scott, L, Camp, KGT, Cilliers, SS, Bezuidenhout, H, Mostert, TH, Siebert, SJ, Winter, PJD, Burrows, JE, Dobson, L, Ward, RA, Stalmans, M, Oliver, EGH (Ted), Siebert, F, Schmidt, E, Kobisi, K, Kose, L, 2006a. Grassland Biome. In: Mucina, L, Rutherford, MC, Eds., The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland. South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), Pretoria. Strelitzia 19: 348 - 436" title="Grassland Biome." volumeTitle="The Vegetation of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland." year="2006 a">Mucina et al. (2006a)</bibRefCitation>
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(Grassland Biome) including scattered small patches of "Northern Afrotemperate Forest"
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">sensu</emphasis>
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on mountain kloofs and small ridges. In contrast to all other habitats of species of
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Lehmann & Dalsgaard" authorityYear="2023" family="Bombacaceae" genus="Shimbania" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Shimbania" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" rank="genus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Shimbania</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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these areas experience a frequent occurrence of frost. Generally, woody shrub and tree species increase with a higher surface rock cover and/or might increase due frequent cattle grazing. If trees are present, only small species occur in the two former biomes,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">
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e.g.
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<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Leguminosae" genus="Acacia" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Acacia caffra" order="Fabales" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="caffra">Acacia caffra</taxonomicName>
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</emphasis>
|
||
Willd. (
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Leguminosae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Fabales" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="family">Leguminosae</taxonomicName>
|
||
-
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Leguminosae" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Fabales" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Mimosoideae">Mimosoideae</taxonomicName>
|
||
),
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Leguminosae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="A. nilotica" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="nilotica">
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||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">A. nilotica</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(L.) Willd. (
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Leguminosae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Leguminosae</taxonomicName>
|
||
-
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Leguminosae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Mimosoideae">Mimosoideae</taxonomicName>
|
||
),
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Leguminosae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="A. tortilis" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="tortilis">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">A. tortilis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(Forssk.) Hayne (
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Leguminosae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Leguminosae</taxonomicName>
|
||
-
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Leguminosae" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subFamily" subFamily="Mimosoideae">Mimosoideae</taxonomicName>
|
||
),
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Proteaceae" genus="Protea" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Protea caffra" order="Proteales" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="caffra">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Protea caffra</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Meisn. (
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Proteaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Proteales" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="family">Proteaceae</taxonomicName>
|
||
),
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Oliniaceae" genus="Vangueria" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Vangueria infausta" order="Gentianales" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="infausta">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Vangueria infausta</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Burch. (
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rubiaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Gentianales" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="family">Rubiaceae</taxonomicName>
|
||
), while the forests comprise tall trees,
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">e.g. Olinia emarginata</emphasis>
|
||
Burtt Davy (
|
||
<taxonomicName family="Oliniaceae" lsidName="" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" rank="family">Oliniaceae</taxonomicName>
|
||
),
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Dicotyledoneae" family="Leguminosae" genus="Podocarpus" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Podocarpus latifolius" order="Fabales" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Angiospermae" rank="species" species="latifolius">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Podocarpus latifolius</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
R. Br. (
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Pinopsida" family="Podocarpaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Pinales" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="family">Podocarpaceae</taxonomicName>
|
||
) and
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rubiaceae" genus="Rothmannia" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="Rothmannia capensis" order="Gentianales" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="species" species="capensis">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">Rothmannia capensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
Thunb. (
|
||
<taxonomicName authorityName="C.P.Thunberg" authorityYear="1776" class="Magnoliopsida" family="Rubiaceae" kingdom="Plantae" lsidName="" order="Gentianales" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Tracheophyta" rank="family">Rubiaceae</taxonomicName>
|
||
). Many of such habitats that existed before the year 1910 are no longer present or are highly dissected today due to the two large cities. It is likely that the collecting site does no longer exist and that
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="S. wichgrafi" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wichgrafi">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">S. wichgrafi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is potentially threatened.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="133">
|
||
Based on its distribution,
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Insecta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="S. wichgrafi" order="Lepidoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="wichgrafi">
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">S. wichgrafi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
can be classified as a submontane and montane species that occurs at the borderline of the "Zambezian regional centre of endemism" and the "Kalahari-Highveld regional transition zone"
|
||
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="133">sensu</emphasis>
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="White, F" journalOrPublisher="Unesco, Paris" pageId="0" pageNumber="133" refId="B104" refString="White, F, 1983. The Vegetation of Africa: a Descriptive Memoir to Accompany the Unesco/AETFAT/UNSO Vegetation Map of Africa. Natural Resources Research no. XX. Unesco, Paris" title="The Vegetation of Africa: a Descriptive Memoir to Accompany the Unesco / AETFAT / UNSO Vegetation Map of Africa. Natural Resources Research no. XX." year="1983">White (1983)</bibRefCitation>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |